Bath device.



M. A. WILSON.

BATH DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED 1111125.11111.

1,021,346. l Patented Manz, 1912.

MABEL A. WILSON, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

BATH DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led August 25, 1911.

Patented Mar. 26, 1912.

Serial No. 646,061.

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, MABEL A. WILSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city o-f St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bath Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bath devices and has for its principal objects to produce a device which may be conveniently used by` invalids, aged and infirm persons, and others who cannot make use of bath tubs as ordinarily designed and heretofore in general use.

Further objects and advantages will hereinafter more fully appear.

The invention consists primarily in combining water receptacles or basins with a chair or seat, either as an integral or a built-up structure, and portable or a fixture, as desirable.

It further consists in the parts and in the arrangements and combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing which forms part of this specification and wherein like symbols refer to like parts wherever they comin-Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bath chair embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section; and Fig. 3 is a fragmentary section on an enlarged scale showing a draw-off for a water receptacle.

In the embodiment of the invention illus trated in the drawing, the chair comprises a seat portion 1, at opposite sides of which are water reservoirs or basins 2. The inner' walls 3 of the basins 2 are of a height so thatthe arms of a person using the device may be conveniently moved thereover. The outer walls 4 are extended upwardly, and the rear walls 5 form continuations of said outer walls and the back 6 of the chair. The middle portion of the back 6 is preferably extended up, as at 7 Pivotally mounted at the front end of one of the side basins 2 is a basin 8 which is adapted to be swung across the front of the chair. This basin 8 is, of course, supported at a distance above the seat sufficient to clear the limbs of the person seated. As shown, the bottom of the basin 8 is in the plane of the upper edges of the inner side walls 3 of the side basins 2; and said basins 2 extend forwardly a slight distance beyond the front edge of the seat.

A convenient way of mounting the basin 8 will be to provide it with a supporting rod or spindle 9 at one end, and slide the spindle down through an eye or perforated lug 10 on the end of the basin 2 and insert its lower end portion into a tubular socket or recess in some solid support at the base of the chair. However, it is obvious that there are many other ways in which the basin 8 may be movably or detachably mounted; and it may be mounted at either side of the chair which is lnore convenient or desirable.

In front of the chair is a foot tub or reservoir 12 whose rear portion or wall 13 is extended up to provide a support for the front edge of the seat 1. This wall 13 inclines or recedes under the seat so as to give considerable freedom of movement to the lower limbs of the person occupying the chair and thereby render the device more comfortable than if the wall extended vertically or inclined outwardly from the seat.

The seat 1 is mounted on a box 14 whose side walls are circular'. The side portions 15 are extended up on opposite sides of the seat to support the side reservoirs or basins 2. Inclined concaved wings4 or flanges 16 connect the side walls of the box 14 and the upper edge portions of the side walls of the foot tub 12. These members 16 serve to stiften the structure as well as constituting fenders to prevent the water from being splashed onto the floor. Also, as shown, the socket 11 may be mounted on one of the fenders 16. v

The rear portion of the device is supported on legs 17, but it is obvious that the box 14 may be extended down so as to rest on the floor. In some cases, the seat 1 may be provided with an opening 18 so that the chair may be used as a bidet or a commode, and a removable basin or receptacle 19 may be placed on the bottom 20 of the box 14 under said opening 18, through an opening 21 provided in the rear wall of the box.

The design illustrated in the drawing is intended more particularly for a sheet metal construction for a portable device; but, obviously, the general lines and contour of the device may be changed as desirable, and it may be made either portable or as a bathroom fixture in accordance with any of the well-known modern methods of manufacture of sanitary bath appliances. That is, the

device may be cast integrally or otherwise formed into shape and coated with porcelain or enamel, The basins may be provided with suitable draw-offs or drains. As shown in Fig. 3 they comprise spout-s or nozzles 22 at the bottom of the receptacles which are normally closed by removable plugs or Stoppers 23. l

rIhe device admits of considerable modii*L cation without depart-ing from my invention, and, therefore, l do not wish to be limited to t-he specific construction and arrangement shown.

WVhat I claim is:

l. A bath tub ,comprising an integral structure arranged as a chair having basins on opposite sides of and above the seat, the outer and rear walls of said basins extending above the inner walls and merging with a wall constituting the backl of the chair, and a foot tub Vwhose inner Wall underlies the seat.

2. A bath tub arranged as a chair having water receptacles mounted on opposite sides of the seat, a water receptacle movably mounted above and at 'the front of the seat, and a water receptacle at the foot of the chair.

3. A bath tub arranged asa chair having water receptacles on opposite sides of the seat, the outer walls of said receptacles being extended upwardly and the rear walls forming continuations thereof and also of the back of the chair, the back of the chair being extended .up above the rear walls of said water receptacles to constitute a back rest, and a foot tub at the front of the chair.

4. A bath device comprising a foot tub, the rear wall of said foot tub being extended upwardly, a chair seat supported at its front edge by said wall, means for support-ing the rear portion of the seat, water receptacles mounted on opposite sides of the seat, said wat-er receptacles extending forwardly beyond the front edge of the seat, and a water receptacle adapted to be supported at the ends of said side receptacles and extending across the front of the seat.

5. A bath chair having separate water receptacles mounted on opposite sides of the seat, a water receptacle pivotally mounted adjacent to the front end of one of the side receptacles and adapt-ed to be swung across the front of the chair, and a receptacle located at the foot of the chair.

6. A bath chair having separate water receptacles mounted adjacent to t-he sides of the seat, a receptacle at the foot of the chair, one of said side receptacles having an eye at its outer end, a socket member at the base of the chair in vertical alinement with said eye, and a water receptacle having an elongated spindle at its end, said spindle being inserted down through said eye and having its lower end portion journaled in said socket member.

7 .,A bath device comprising a chair, water receptacles in cooperative relation to t-he sides of t-he seat, a water receptacle movably mounted in cooperative relation to the front of the seat, and a foot tubin front of said seat, the rear portion of said foot tub extending back under the seat..

Signed at St. Louis, Missouri, this 21 day of August, 1911,.

y MABEL A. WLSON.

Witnesses:

Mrs. JOHN GiBBoNs, VINNIE M. VILsoN.

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